Aviation News

The fuselage of an F-104 Starfighter jet once flown by Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield has been mated with a rocket engine and will be used to try to break the land speed record some time next year… Eclipse Aviation said Tuesday it’s definitely “on track“ for FAA certification by the end of June, and […]

Greek authorities have concluded that human error caused the crash of a Helios Airlines flight near Athens last year. According to a report leaked to the Greek media, technicians forgot to switch the pressurization system on the Boeing 737 back to automatic after a system check and the pilots failed to notice. Everyone on board, […]

Two F-16s, one from Greece and one from Turkey, collided in midair above the Aegean Sea on Tuesday. The Turkish pilot was rescued, but the Greek pilot has not been found… The FAA says controllers would be out $700 million if they retire early, as NATCA has warned they will if the FAA’s offer is […]

Pilots who have encountered bad weather are being asked to participate in an international study on how those encounters affected them. You can take part online and we hope the organizers of the study have a large inbox… A Redding, Calif.-area man escaped with a bruised nose after flying his Cessna 210 into Keswick Lake, […]

A Cessna pilot caused a security scare in Florida on Saturday when he accidentally set his transponder to a hijack code… The FAA has revoked the air-carrier operating certificate of American Air Network, of Chesterfield, Mo…. A firefighting airplane that crashed on Sunday in Saskatchewan had just been bought a month ago, province officials said. […]

Authorities are looking for vandals who did $1 million in damage to airport lighting at Brookley Field Industrial Complex in downtown Mobile, Ala., last month. Flights have not been disrupted… Administrative workers at the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have gone on strike after rejecting a contract offer from union brass. The union says it […]

An instructor and his student were hurt on a tandem skydiving jump in Cottonwood, Ariz., on Sunday afternoon when the main chute failed to deploy, and the reserve chute didn’t open completely before the pair hit the ground… A helicopter pilot flying for a Florida sheriff’s department was temporarily blinded when a green laser was […]

A Vietnam War-era aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, will be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola as an artificial reef. Before the sinking, more than 400 veterans who served on the ship are expected at a reception being held, in part, to remember 32 airmen killed and two still listed as missing from […]

A memorial service for test pilot Scott Crossfield will be held at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 15… LoPresti will announce at Oshkosh where it will build a factory to produce the Fury, a company spokesman told AVweb yesterday… If you’re flying to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this summer, the NOTAM is now available… The […]

Teledyne Continental Motors is giving away a free engine to someone who registers for its Aviator Services plan. Registrants qualify to win either a Continental or Lycoming certified IO-360 engine or one of four experimental engine models… Eight of 16 surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders gathered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base last week […]